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��bart., and Penelope wife of Sir Joseph Alston." By his will he devised this manor as Talworth or Tal- worth Court to Dame Mary Glynne. Both Mary and her son William predeceased Sir William Glynne, who devised the manor of Talworth or Talworth Court to his brother Sir Stephen Glynne. 9 * He conveyed it in 1724 to Hugh Viscount Falmouth and others, trustees of the will of Sir William Scawen, in trust for Thomas Scawen. 93 From Thomas it descended to James Scawen his son, who in 1777 mortgaged the manor to Robert Waters of Whitehaven, 94 and it was sold by his trustees in 1781 to Nathaniel Polhill, tobacconist, M.P. for Southwark. 95 He died in 1782, and Nathaniel his son and heir died in the following November, leaving an infant son. This son dying just before he would have come of age in April 1802, the estate came to his uncle John Polhill, owner in I8IO. 96 Before 1835 the manor was bought by the fourth Earl of Egmont. The land was sold before the death of the seventh earl in 1 897, and a number of small houses were built upon it by a building company. Talworth Court was burnt down in April 1911.

The manor of NORTH TALWORTH may be identified with the land which previous to the Con- quest had been held by Edmcr, and in 1086 was held by Ralph of Richard de Tonbridge. Afterwards it seems to have been held under the Clares by the Dammartins 9r and in 1314 appears among the fees held of Gilbert de Clare by Thomas de Warblington, who held the manors of Tandridge, North Talworth, and Ockley by service of three and a half knights' fees. 99 John de Warblington held the same of Hugh le Despenser in 1349," an( ^ t ' le tnree manors were in 1376 held by Alice the widow of John de War- blington.' 00 In 1440 they formed part of the fees of Isabel, Countess of Warwick, daughter of Thomas le Despenser, grandson of Hugh, being described as those which Thomas de Warblington formerly held. 101 There seems to be no further trace of this manor, the overlordship of which was in the same hands as that of Long Ditton, with which perhaps it was united, unless it be the property in Talworth of which John Danaster, baron of the Exchequer, died seised in 1 54O, 101 which he settled on his daughter Anne, afterwards the wife of Owen Bray of Chobham. Manning and Bray " say that Danaster* land was held in 1571 by Margaret Lambard (Lambert), whose heir was Christopher Muschamp. Christopher married a daughter of a Margaret Lambert, 104 who was also apparently his cousin. He died in 1587. His will was dated from his capital messuage of Talworth, and he held lands in Carshalton, Bedding- ton, Sutton, and Wallington 'eidemcapitali messuagio spectantes.' His widow Dorothy, who had been

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Or fretty azure with eaglet argent on the fret.

��apparently his second wife, had a life interest with reversion to his son Henry. 105

The priory of Merton held a manor in Talworth, called by Manning and Bray SOUTH TALWORTH, which was also part of the Clare fee.

At an early date Huelmus le Fleming acquired a virgate of land in Talworth from Robert, Prior of Merton, which the prior had before received from Hugh son of Isold. 10 * In 1255 the Prior of Merton held the eighth part of a knight's fee in Talworth of Ralph de Planaz, for which he denied that he owed suit of court at the manor of Talworth, 107 and in 1314 among the fees of Gilbert de Clare was a manor of Talworth held by the Prior of Merton by the service of a quarter of a knight's fee, value loo/. 108 In I349, 109 '376," and 1440,'" the in- quisitions on the Clares and their descendants mention the same fee.

At its dissolution the priory held rents of assize in Kingston, Ditton, Talworth, Chessington, Hook, and elsewhere amounting to I l6/. lj^. m These were annexed to the honour of Hampton Court. 113

The Knights of St. John in the reign of Henry III held a knight's fee in Talworth of which they had been enfeoffed by Henry Kyryel. Their prior in that reign was fined for withdrawing his men of Tal- worth so that they did not render suit at the king's court at Kingston, nor pay tallage when due. 1 " In 1 294 Henry Pycot granted 8 acres in Talworth to the prior of this order. 114

The church of ST. MARY is a build- CHURCH ing of Godalming stone in the style of the 1 3th century, consisting of a chancel, chamber, vestry, nave, transepts, aisles, and south porch. It was erected in 1878-80 some distance to the north of a former building on a neighbouring site ; the foundations of this are still visible, and some portions of its chancel walls still stand. It was of a small Greek-cross plan and built of brick in the place of the ancient building, which dated partly from the I zth century and which had fallen into a bad state of decay. Nothing remains to show the size and appearance of the ancient church, but from the disposition of the churchyard it must have been very small, no larger than the 18th-century building.

Some of the floor slabs and mural monuments have been left in their original places in the 1 8th-century re- mains. The earliest is a slab to Thomas Evelyn, 1659, and there are others to Sir Edward Evelyn, bart., 1692,

��" G.E.C. Baronetage, iv, 131.

M Manning and Bray, Hitt.of Surr. iii, 19.

"Ibid.; Feet of F. Surr. Mich. II Geo. I ; Recov. R. Mich. 33 Geo. II, rot. 328.

" Com. Pleat D. Enr. HiL 17 Geo. Ill, m. 1 80.

"Manning and Bray, Hilt, of Surr. iii, 19 ; Recov. R. East. I Will. IV, rot. 36.

96 Manning and Bray, Surr. iii, 20.

alto belonged to Ralph in 1086, and after- wards to the Warblingtons, and William de Dammartin appears as witness in the grant of land in Talworth to the hospital
 * > The Dammartins held Ockley, which

��of St. Thomas, Southwark, mentioned above. See also Tandridge.

98 Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II, no. 68, m. 65.

m Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. Ill, pt. ii (ist nos.), no. 169.

100 Chan. Inq. p.m. 49 Edw. Ill, pt. ii (ist nos.), no. 46.

101 Fees of Edward le Despenser, Inq. p.m. 18 Hen. VI, file 96, no. 3, m. 44.

lw Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxxii, 143. See also manor of Aden in Chobham.

101 Surr. iii, 19. But tee note 105 below.

"X yhit. o/Srr.(Harl. Soc.), 82, 94, 95.

loi Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cciiv, 214. John Danaster, however, had no lands

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��in these other parishes ; so that possibly hit holding was not the tame at Mus- champ's.

1M Cott. MS. Cleop. C vii.

10 ? Assize R. 872, m. 12 d.

108 Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II, no. 68.

109 Chan. Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. Ill, pt. ii (ist nos.), no. 169.

110 Ibid. 49 Edw. Ill, pt. ii (ist nos.), no. 46.

111 Ibid. 1 8 Hen. VI, no. 3, m. 44. in Dugdale, Man. vi, 245.

111 Mint. Accts. Surr. 33-4 Hen. VIII, no. 169.

1M Assize R. Surr. 873, m. 7 d. 115 Cal. of Pat. 1292-1301, p. IOI.

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